Android P Developer Preview Hits The Streets

The preview includes an updated SDK with system images for the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, and the official Android Emulator. Unlike last year, there is no emulator for testing Android Wear on Android P.

Why should you care? Here’s what Android P…. One has to wonder what food item that will be used to market this OS…… Popsicles perhaps?…… Has going for it:

Android P offers support for “the latest edge-to-edge screens with display cutout for camera and speaker,” with a new “DisplayCutout” class for outlining the size and shape of a notch on an Android device. Seeing as Android device makers are copying the iPhone X and its notch.

Indoor positioning APIs so that your phone will more accurately grab a location indoors.